D) I dial up my satellite receiver so it will DVR the movie I've been wanting to see.

I hope twitter dies.

I choose c) talk about it on IRC (maybe I'll finally make bash.org)

Twitter me this, Twitter me that, who's afraid of losing their trackball while in a bank that is being robbed?

FarkingMonday: /approves

First time I've actually seen the tweets Perez sent. You've somehow managed to make me hate him even more. I thought he'd already hit rock bottom with my capacity for hatred, but you managed to search around the internet until you found the means to rent a drill to tunnel through the very core of the planet that serves as the setting for my hate tunnel analogy.

idsfa: I'm gonna guess the number she wanted was 911

Why? You think the bank wouldn't have alerted them? I wouldn't bother calling 911 during a bank robbery, it's redundant.

I feel like I have to point out here that neither submittard nor anybody else actually understood the article. Admittedly the writing was sub-par. The woman didn't start twittering until _after the robbery was over_. She didn't even notice it while it was occurring. She only started Twittering once the police locked the bank down and she couldn't leave to go back to work.

GIS for twitter:

The latter option will probably get you more attention.

WTF is a trackball?

davidphogan: xenophon10k: Dial the number maybe? Works fine on my blackberry. No trackball needed.

I've had a job where I couldn't easily reach my bosses without looking up their numbers. I don't dial many calls from anything but my phone, and I dial those by name.

Yes, I know of workarounds for my phone, but maybe she couldn't figure out how to get to the name without the trackball?

hmm a crackberry user that doesn't know how to use their phone, that sounds like 99.999% of them.

Control_this: D) I dial up my satellite receiver so it will DVR the movie I've been wanting to see.

That was my first thought, too.

/ruined by commercials.

C)

I'm going to go out on a limb, and use common sense and reading skills and say that those "tweets" happened after the robbery. The bank employees wouldn't let them leave until the cops arrived.

Yes, how farking retarded of her. How the hell did she, nor anyone else for that matter, not notice that a person in normal clothes, no mask, no visible gun pass a note to the teller as a silent alarm sounded to the police station? What a farking waste of a life, I cannot fathom how she did not run to assist the teller by assaulting the unknown gunman with her already broken blackberry.

Ponzholio: Amberwind: wage0048: Ponzholio: YesItsTom: Isn't the answer always c) ?

Apparently not...

I had a prof in college who ranted for fifteen minutes before passing out the final exam (175 multiple-choice questions) about how annoyed he was about the fact that people failed to pay attention to the instructions he gave on papers (he would dictate the page count, font, size, formatting) throughout the semester. He then handed out the final exam.

Two minutes after we opened the exam booklets, I turned mine in and left the classroom.

His instructions were to answer the first and last questions only.

My 3rd grade teacher did something similar with a fill in the blank form. The very first instruction was, "Write your name in the name field, and then put your pencil down. Ignore the rest of this test."

I was the only kid in the class to do it correctly. Then again, we were bunch of 8 year olds in public school.

/I only have a grasp of grammar because they stuck me in an ESL class for half of 7th grade.

Yeah, we had to do something like that in scouts, just to see how well we could follow directions.

A manager gave us one of those and it had instructions like "recite the alphabet backwards" "turnaroud 3 times" etc in it. The last item on the list says "please only do task 1".

Used it as a 'teamwork building' exercise. the scary thing was that pretty much all of management didn't read to the end before starting the tasks.

Of course I read the thing at the top that said "read this entire page before doing anything" and skipped straight to the bottom item rather than wasting time. She didn't like that.

Is the answer Jesus?

The answer should always be Jesus.

punto: WTF is a trackball?

Probably the wheely component on the Pearl model. Operates just like a trackball mouse.

Ponzholio: Amberwind: wage0048: Ponzholio: YesItsTom: Isn't the answer always c) ?

Apparently not...

I had a prof in college who ranted for fifteen minutes before passing out the final exam (175 multiple-choice questions) about how annoyed he was about the fact that people failed to pay attention to the instructions he gave on papers (he would dictate the page count, font, size, formatting) throughout the semester. He then handed out the final exam.

Two minutes after we opened the exam booklets, I turned mine in and left the classroom.

His instructions were to answer the first and last questions only.

My 3rd grade teacher did something similar with a fill in the blank form. The very first instruction was, "Write your name in the name field, and then put your pencil down. Ignore the rest of this test."

I was the only kid in the class to do it correctly. Then again, we were bunch of 8 year olds in public school.

/I only have a grasp of grammar because they stuck me in an ESL class for half of 7th grade.

Yeah, we had to do something like that in scouts, just to see how well we could follow directions.

was the scout test along the lines of "smile and pretend you are in your happy place, and don't tell your parents?"